How did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world?
In The Aesthetic Cold War, Peter Kalliney explores the various ways that rival states used …

Modernist concepts, especially aesthetic autonomy, were fundamental to the literature of
decolonization in anglophone Africa. An archival examination of Black Orpheus, Transition …

In the course of interviewing some seventy graduate students in English for a book on the
state of literary criticism, I've encountered two types of people who are having trouble …

IN A 1939 INTERVIEW in the Partisan Review, Wallace Stevens insisted that “war is a
military state of affairs, not a literary one”(CPP 805). Such a remark is hardly surprising …

ABSTRACT Kawabata Yasunari (1899–1972), Japan's first Nobel laureate in literature, is
best known today for highbrow novels such as Yukiguni (Snow country, 1935–1947). But in …

This dissertation aims to demonstrate how books functioned as a form of cultural diplomacy
during the early years of the Cold War, between 1948 and 1956. This is achieved using the …

The culture of the 1950s in Britain has routinely been cast as a period of dogged realism. Yet
the postwar period can alternatively be read as one in which artists and writers wrangle with …

In the mid1970s, after a hiatus of several years, I returned to graduate school for a PhD in
comparative literature. I had not been away for long and knew the field I was coming back to; …